In solidarity with the jailed comrades, we get back in front of the walls that divide us: There will be music, screaming, fires and a warm participation to fill the space between those that inside and outside, are facing life with courage, without lowering the head to the guards and their abuses.

International Week of Solidarity with Anti-fascist prisoner Jock Palfreeman

We are urgently calling all anarchist, anti-fascist and other anti-authoritarian left wing groups to act in solidarity with Jock Palfreeman. Jock has already served several years of his 20 year sentence in Bulgaria. He actively works towards organising his fellow prisoners and highlights cases of repression by the prison authorities.

He is one of the founders of the Bulgarian Prisoners Association. In the last few years, the response to his imprisonment and calls for solidarity with him from the anarchist and anti-fascist movement have been underwhelming. He needs more groups and individuals to join the campaign for his freedom. His family and some liberals have been organising support for him and trying to raise money for his fine; but Jock was always asking for a more direct kind of solidarity other than just politely asking the authorities to be nice.

He needs people to not only constantly put pressure on the Bulgarian authorities in the form of letters and emails, but also organise demos and pickets outside embassies and/or any other Bulgarian institutions, generally spreading awareness about his case.

Please keep publishing information about Jock on your blogs, websites and social media. We hope you will all join the upcoming International Week of Solidarity with Jock Palfreeman on 22nd-28th April, and use your creativity and imagination to express solidarity.

Jock Palfreeman is an Australian who, on the 27th December 2007, on a night out in Sofia, Bulgaria; had the courage to stand up against a group of fascist hooligans. Witnessing the fascists chasing and attacking two young Roma boys, Jock ran to the boys’ aid. He did his best to keep the fascists at bay but they ended up turning on and attacking him. Left with nowhere to run, Jock had no choice but to defend himself. Andrey Monov, one of the racist gang, was stabbed and later died. Another, Anton Zahariev was injured. The Roma boys ran away. Jock has since been tried and sentenced for murder and attempted murder.

He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and has been given a fine running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Andrey Monovs father is well known in Bulgaria and at his funeral there were a mixture of judges, police and politicians. Jock’s trial was (not surprisingly) a complete sham – yet another example of corruption, secret handshakes in the judicial system and media bias. The prosecutions case was built on the witness statements made by the other racists that were part of the attacking group, all claiming that Jock randomly attacked and chased them, with the intent of killing somebody. Key people and possible witnesses for Jocks defence were never interviewed by police and CCTV footage from the scene miraculously went missing. Many of the statements made at the time were different to the statements submitted to the court by the prosecution., while Jocks statement has remained consistent from the night in question.

Jock appealed against his sentence and court hearings took place between October 2010 and January 2011, but his sentence of 20 years was upheld. Jock’s family is currently collecting necessary funds and you can donate by visiting the www.freejock.com.We need to let Jock know that he is not alone in his struggle and that we are in it for the long run. Any solidarity actions can go a long way to assure that. He recently helped create the Bulgarian Association of Prisoners (www.bulgarianprisonersassociation.wordpress.com) and because he is its Chairman, he suffers repression from the prison’s administration, such as a recent refusal of computer access to continue his university education, which pushed Jock into a 30-day hunger-strike. Jock needs us to act and he needs our solidarity.It is now more important than ever, that we collectively put as much pressure on the Bulgarian authorities as possible, to accept Jock’s transfer to Australia.

Finally, please write to Jock, even if it’s only a ‘good luck’ postcard. Any letters and postcards will help to keep Jock’s spirit up and feeling positive. All will be gratefully received. You can write to Jock at the following address:

We considered it important to intervene, of course not for the legal defence since it does not concern us even a bit, wanting to state once more our solidarity to anarchist revolutionary Theofilos Mavropoulos, who was arrested on 18/5/11 after an armed clash leaving two cops on the ground injured and unfortunately getting injured himself, a fact which led to his captivity. Watching the testimonies of the cops (Leontopoulos, Drosos) who were crying at the judges about how much pain they experienced and the scrams they made from Theofilos’s hits, a fact that can only bring a smile to an anarchist seeing how easy the roles change and how transforms the victimizer of slavery, humiliation, the protection of institutions, the beatings of immigrants and marginalized, the protectors of the state and capital, of drug dealing, of reproduction of authoritative relations, subjugation and non freedom, into a victim in the hands of an anarchist who fights for life, ignity and freedom.

We were not waiting for the testimony of the cops to defend our comrades choices. Theofilos Mavropoulos from the first moment of his arrest took full responsibility of his actions stressing that he would do it again if needed. Opening fire on the enemies of freedom gave the chance to his comrade to escape with their own cop car. An act which shows how we give meaning to the term SOLIDARITY with all means and TO THE END We state therefore that we in SOLIDARITY with comrade Theofilos Mavropoulos and that we are and will remain next to him.

“THEOFILOS MAVROPOULOS IS OUR BROTHER, IN PRISON A GUERILLA, IN THE STREETS OUR COMRADE” (a chant heard at the solidarity gathering outside the hospital where the comrade was being treated a few days after his arrest.)

The police carried out in the morning of Thursday March 28, two violent raids in different parts of Temuco (Chile), in the context of repressive tasks before the commemoration of the Youth Combatant’s Day.

According to media reports, 12 people were arrested in both operations, four of them were women. They were taken to the “disgusting” police station of Temuco.

One of the operatives took place in a house at San Ernesto st. with O’Higgins st; in the area of Dreve square, which would correspond to Pandemia Space, where a few days ago were released a statement against the police harassment, at the same time a raid took place in Capri Street, Amanecer area.

According to the raving policemen were found: drugs, explosives manufacturing elements, watches and 2 unfinished bombs installed in fire extinguishers, something strange when you consider that just a few days ago the statement was released from Pandemia space

The items supposedly found, are analyzed to try to link the comrades with the devices installed recently at the Regional Temuco’s Gendarmerie Directorate and in a fire in the wood yard of Sodimac store.

Today March 29, the Temuco’s Court of Guarantee, resolved that: the comrades formalized for the crime of possession, manufacture and installation of explosive devices, are: Adriana Torres Torres, Roxana Marín Laurie y Yaritza Grandón Paredes, who will spend five months in custody. Also two comrades were charged with 100 grams of marijuana and they are being processed, so they will be in custody for at least three months.Six comrades were released but they should pay an amount of 2 UTM (U$D 160) for refusing to give their identities.

The call is to solidarize not only with the comrades kidnapped by the capitalist system, but also with the Pandemia space.

Since October 1996 I’ve been kept in the dungeons of the German state. I was sentenced to eleven and a half years in prison for one bank-robbery to fundraise money for left-wing projects. Later I was sentenced to a further five years and three months for “insulting” prosecutors, judges and politicians.

I have been a Red and Anarchist Skinhead (RASH) for many years, and the government kept me in isolation (solitary confinement) from 1996 until May 2007. I have been in the general prison population for the past six years and will finish my sentences in July 2013.

But in 1997 the criminal court added the so-called “preventive detention” (PD) to my sentence, based on a Nazi-Law from November 1933 which allows the state to keep a prisoner in custody over and above the end of their regular sentence, if they want to for the rest of the inmate’s life.

Recently the courts opened my files to decide if I will go to PD in July 2013. In the end there is not much real chance that the judges will set me free, but it would still be helpful and I would appreciate the solidarity, if people could write some letters and e-mails to the court and support my struggle for freedom.

Inside and outside of prison can be heard once again the strong voices of those who claim’s that prison is a place of torture.That prison is not reformable, since his brutal logic is the foundation of this society.

Complaints about harassment, beatings and blackmail made ​​by many prisoners, including Maurizio Alfieri,do nothing but reinforce the urgency of reviving the prison issue to the center of debate and struggle.

No for begging some reform, that “humanise” the prison conditions to legitimizes the existence of prisons,but to understand once and for all that prison is a system to monitor and punish anyone who is not satisfied with the freedom granted by this democratic society.

Anyone who disowns the idea that freedom is reduced to an election day to choose (perhaps) the own boss, anyone who calls by his name the exploitation in the workplace, blackmail of banks, colonial wars sold as humanitarian. Anyone in the refined world of probation.

Breaking the silence is the first step to obstruct the jail system,who wants that all the comrades be indifferent, resigned or even collaborate.

Make solidarity and complicity our weapons.

A solidarity present and alive, that bloom as the spring flowers in every crack and manifests itself in all ways, to bring down those walls: to convert jail in a memory of a past intolerable.

Dear comrades, your letter gave me strength and joy. I have many things to say but I will limit myself to a few of those. The role of the comrades held hostage cannot be but that of analysis, the supplying of the comrades outside the walls with further tools. Beyond the obvious of insurrection and non-subjugation inside the prisons, the struggle continues, and you gave us an example with your resistance. Communication cannot but be carried out through action and this is why we do not have to assign it in some way to the professionals of speech. It is vital, of course, that the news and ideas go around the world. It is necessary however that we avoid in any way the transformation into bureaucracy of a procedure that must remain free from the elite of those who specialize in information. The ability of planning must be the fruit of the action of comrades outside the wall and the analysis of the hostage comrades. The public dialogue which will take place in Thessaloniki in the frames of counter-information is important, and I am sure that during your intervention you will mention my objection.

This, of course, does not abolish the fact that counter-information, the sites, the blogs, are important, simply all this is something else. We do not have to confuse the practice of counter-information with direct action. The word of consistency by the sisters and brothers in the war is the only one which really matters. The so-called “social anarchism” makes everything spin around the “organ of the assembly”, which has become the field of authority and breeding of young and old leaders, whose sole purpose is self-reference. Politician anarchists do anything they can in order to drown, at its birth, the new which gains ground.

The newness which gains ground is the making of an informal organization, an organization which some rebels insist on overloading with useless and abstract meanings, political considerations, continuous mediations in search of urban acceptance, which in reality deforms any revolutionary element.

When actions speak, the decisive influence applied by the “leaders of anarchy” through their talent in the assemblies will come crumble to pieces, and the group of relevance, the individuality of action, will regain strength. The “realists” of anarchy have nothing more to do but dispute the new, promoting even more the “social struggles”, searching for the “popular consent” which can be acquired only with steady rejection of everything anarchist and insurrectional.

Thanks to your letters, perceptions such as nihilism and anti-social anarchism, are spreading to every corner. We have a long way to go still and the direction we took is the right one. Your courage fills me with dare. Through the walls of this cell, Olga, my smile greets you. My flesh is your flesh, my blood is your blood.

We have decided, comrades and friends, open a bank account to collect contributions from different and unique situations, in solidarity with Alfredo and Nicola.You can indicate why you have decided to cooperate and if you want to be allocated to the comrades in jail or to cover legal expenses.

IBAN IT10 T076 0101 0000 0101 0767 885 intestato a Paolo Perona

Nicola Gai and Alfredo Cospito were arrested on Sept. 14, 2012 accused of being the authors of the injury of Roberto Adinolfi, CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare. action taken by the Cell Olga/ FAI-IRF on May 7, 2012.

Nicola and Alfredo are currently in custody in the prison of San Michele of Alessandria,under close surveillance in a AS2 regime will be judged under Article 280 of the Criminal Code (terrorist attack purposes), according to the indictment from prosecutors Silvio Franz and Nicola Piacente. To this day has not been set the trial date.